Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29773, Samuel Edwards, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Edwards, Samuel
S. 29773
CONTENTS

1930 - Oct. 23 - Airt. to Mrs. E. G. Harmon - Add.
29778 INVALID. Rev.
File No. 29778
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index: —Vol. 9 , Page 195
[Arrangement of 1870.]

. 11. 230 Maine
Samuel Edwards
York Co. in the State of Maine - who was a Artificer in the Company commanded by Captain Davis of the Light  Infantry in the Massachusetts Militia
9. Mc. Arthur . $ 52.
Inverness, Maine with the sum of 500 Dollars per annum, commencing on the 1st day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of April 1833 and sent to Dana Fox, Portland, Me
Arrears to the 24th of March 1833 108.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 27.00 $ 135.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by John S. Sprague Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 1 Page 13.

Samuel Edwards
N o 1670
Admitted Artificer
1 st mo th
21 54—
J. Mussey Esq r Portland Maine

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland  Gosport , within and for said District, on the thirty first day of July A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this thirty first day of July aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Samuel Edwards a resident of Buxton in the county of York in said Maine District, aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he served in the war of the Revolution as follows viz
In 1770 at Buxton in Maine then part of Massachusetts he was drafted as a private soldier in the month of May & was mustered at Falmouth on the 14 th of June and marched to Westport under Capt Davis & was there but under the command of Col Wheeler & served under him one fortnight, & then returned to Falmouth and remained there eight months until he was discharged having served nine months . He was a blacksmith by trade & was employed in the iron works, running hammers under the direction of Major Dobbins at Dover Iron Works - He was born in Haverhill in the state of Massachusetts from thence he removed to Gosport in said state where  where he was twenty one years of age - thence  thence he removed to Buxton on the  on the  17th of March 1776  17th of March 1776 when he has resided ever since - Isaac Whitney of  of Gosport was mustered into him & he knows his service is a record of his age in the town records of Haverhill where he was born.
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only off that of the agency in the State of
Samuel Edwards
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Asahel Ware
} U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

I Isaac Whitney of Gorham in the State of Maine do hereby depose & say that in the year 1878 I enlisted as a soldier at Gorham for some months & was ordered to New York where I went there with Samuel Edwards & was there mustered into service under him. and According to his orders in the war words & as he believed for the whole term of nine months for which he was drafted. I was not present with him when he was discharged but I have always understood that he served nine months & believe that he did -
his Isaac X Whitney mark.
Signed & sworn to before
Asahel Root Judge of the United States for the Dist. of Maine
I certify that it has been satisfactorily proved to me that the above named Isaac Whitney is a man of veracity & that whatever may be heard on his deposition
Asahel Root
Patten Feb 4. 1883 -
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Mufsey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Edwards for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
John Mufsey
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

John Edwards jun r of Lanes u { Married Dec r 15. 1787 Elizabeth Brocke of Streatham
Samuel Born February 16. 1760
a true copy taken out of Haverhill Book of Records of Births & Deaths
Examined, as atted John Eaton Town Clerk
a true copy atted N. Elden Jr.
I John Smith of Buxton in the County of York & State of Maine, On oath depose and say that Samuel Edwards named in the above Certificate, now living in said Buxton, was drafted at Gorham, and went with me from thence, to the North in the year A.D. 1778, sometime in the Month of June as a Soldier in the Revolutionary war, and passed muster at Fisk's Hill New York, Conducted thither, by Maj r James Johnson of Westbrook, formerly Falmouth, now deceased. From Fisk's Hill we marched to West Point, where Artificers were called out to go into the works, among whom said Samuel Edwards was one, employed in shoring the Horses belonging to the Troops, till his discharge the 4 th of March 1779
John Smith
Subscribed & Sworn to by said John Smith, a man of veracity & a credible witness
before me Nathan Elden Jr. of the County of York
Buxton January 28. 1833
Maine District
District Clerk's Office February 5. 1833
In testimony that Nathan Elden Jun r Esquire is a Magistrate and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine I have hereto set my hand and seal of Office the day and year last above written
John Mussey Clerk U. S. Comt

Bureau of Pensions Rev. War Section, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the military and family records as found in Samuel Edwards (135d. York Co. Maine -) pension records.
A prompt reply would be greatly appreciated, and I thank you for your attention.
Very truly yours
Mrs. Fred E Harmon Greenwood Road Brunswick,
Brunswick Maine Oct. 9-1930-
Maine

Rev. & 1812 Wars Sect. ILL
October 23, 1930.
Mrs. Fred E. Harmon Greenwood Road Brunswick, Maine.
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 29773, that Samuel Edwards was born February 16, 1750 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He moved when twenty-one years of age to Gorham, Massachusetts, and from there in 1776 to Buxton, Massachusetts (later Maine).
While a resident of Buxton, Massachusetts, he enlisted in May, 1778, and served as a private in Captain Davis' Massachusetts Company, was transferred to Captain Wheeler's Massachusetts Company and after serving two weeks in that company, was placed under Major Debbs as an artificer and was engaged in shoeing horses, entire length of service nine months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 31, 1832, while a resident of Buxton, York County, Maine.
He died May 13, 1839.
There also appears in the papers on file on the same sheet with soldier's birth, the following: John Edwards, Junr. of Haverhill and Elizabeth Crockett of Stratton married December 15, 1737, but it is not stated whether they were his parents.
There are no further family data.
Very truly yours,
E.W.MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.